Do you think there's any hope for Iced Earth?

[Janga666]

I loved Burnt Offerings and i liked Horror Show. Other than that Iced Earth doesn't do much for me. I listened to the Crucible of Man and found it uninteresting.

I think the band would do good to put out an album without the weird storylines.

 

[Dak]

It's not the concept that kills the album. Its using the same riffs for 15+ years.

 

[mutantllama]

Night of the Stormrider has Schaffer's best riffs.

 

[gorgorwrath]

I hope so. I saw them roughly a month ago and they were pretty good. Barlow being back was awesome. Their new stuff isn't bad, but yeah it isn't anything just phenomenally different, and interesting.

 

[TTOS]

With the exception of the Gettysburg concept cd which was awesome. Everything since Horror Show has been pretty bland. And the cringeworthy 'god bless america' lyrics of TGB were fucking embarrassing.

 

[Black Friday]

Actually Stormrider had a bit too much of the chugga-chugga for me. It just seemed like he fell back on that when he didn't have any other ideas. However, if it wasn't for the dark, cold atmosphere of BO then NOTS would win the cake.

 

[mutantllama]

Well that's what the original idea of Iced Earth is. To create a mixture of power/traditional metal with the aggression of thrash.

 

[Mr. Bungle]

I actually love the new album, and I loved part 1 as well. The Glorious Burden was not terrible, but it was their worst disc.

 

[Dammnare]

They are nothing for me after making " When the Eagle Cries "

 

[waif]

When Schaffer starts writing decent songs, the band will stop sucking.

fyp

 

[Uthark]

Have you heard Burnt Offerings then WAIF? Pretty decent album if you ask me.

 

[The Ozzman]

He likes Wintersun, but hates Iced Earth. I don't get it.

 

[waif]

@Ozz: It's kinda hard to understand, but I have a general preference for well-composed melodic extreme metal over 45 minutes of 16th note power chords. Weird, I know.

 

[Black Friday]

@Ozz: It's kinda hard to understand, but I have a general preference for well-composed melodic extreme metal over 45 minutes of 16th note power chords. Weird, I know.

But that has nothing to do with Iced Earth, why the fuck don't you like them?

 

[mutantllama]

Cuz he's a fag. Who thinks NoTSR sucks also.

 

[IntoPhagist]

Glorious Burden grew on me after all these years, FA SW PT 1 was one of my favorite IE albums...This new one with Barlow back is boring.

Night of the Stormrider, Dark Saga, Horror Show and Framing Armageddon are my top IE albums. That's all you need.

 

[mutantllama]

too bad you forgot Burnt Offerings

 

[waif]

Cuz he's a fag. Who thinks NoTSR sucks also.

RIDE ON! GRAB ON! STORMRIDER!
There's no excuse for writing retarded lyrics that don't make a shred of sense when you're trying to create a concept album and english is your first language.

 

[waif]

Cuz he's a fag. Who thinks NoTSR sucks also.

RIDE ON! GRAB ON! STORMRIDER!
There's no excuse for writing retarded lyrics that don't make a shred of sense when you're trying to create a concept album and english is your first language.

But also the music of that album is pretty meh.
Something Wicked This Way Come is a solid album though. The last 3 are great and a couple others (burning times, melancholy, my own savior) are pretty badass. Some real crap there, though; reaping stone, stand alone, consequences. disciples of the lie. Consequences produced nausea, actually.

 

[The Butt]

^ Every song on Something Wicked This Way Comes is good, broheim.